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Tjutčev's Poetic Admonitions — With Some Help from Puškin and Zabolockij
Russian Literature, 2003
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THE number of local speech characteristics in fiction fulfilling expressive function can be exceedingly great. Taken together they create a unique emotional atmosphere without which a piece of writing would contain nothing but a record of certain facts of doubtful conceptual or aesthetic significance. Inability to find similarly expressive units in the target language in the course of translation may end up with a complete failure to ren-der “the emotional spirit” of the original narration which in many cases appears to be the only “device” turning a trivial enough uneventful story with practically no philosophic generalisations into a masterpiece of literary writing.
The Epoch of Classical Realism: 19th-Century Cultural and Literary Tendencies. Proceedings of IV International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism, 2011
tbe Basis of Selected Short Stories by A. P. Chekhov 19 u, century was a period of dynamic changes in the field of literature; it was the time which has given rise to the many experiments aimed at defining the role of art. One of the core problems was also the notion of a new, educated recipient who was to understand the meaning of a work and cross its transient boundaries to grasp the metaphysical sense. A. P. Chekhov belonged to the group of 19 th century artists who studied the problem of perception and emphasized the importance of intuiti.on and instinct in the process of creation. Being both a physician and an author helped him to master his method of deep realism with its ecological view of the human being focused on the relationship between the physical and spiritual.
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2015
The subject of the study is an analysis of Anthon Chekhov's selected tales which contain a convergence of fiction. The topic of unfulfilled fate seems to be a leading theme in Chekhov's prose of the 1890s. The characters of the analyzed texts share the author's opinion that indifference, everyday life, narrowmindness influence the fate not less than regular crimes or wicked deeds. In those narrations anyone should notice the development of Chekhov's attitude to happiness which underlines the influence of the surrounding/environment on shaping human awareness. He claims that it is impossible to gain satisfaction without opposing to shallow opinions and the devoidness of ideas which are characteristic attributes of a petty bourgeoisie, the best example of whom are the characters' stories.
The Modern Language Review, 2008
... 22 verse or Andrei Belyi's novel Peterburg (Petersburg) without taking this influence into ... 21 FF Zelinskii, 'Vyacheslav Ivanov', in SA Vengerov (ed.), Russkaya literature XX veka (1890-1910) (M.: Izdanie T-va 'Mir', 1916), III, viii, 101-13 (102-3). 22 Ibid., 109-10. 23 Ibid., 113. ...